Literary Fiction
Cuentos del Oeste
Read by Victor Villarraza
Bret Harte
Bret Harte ha sido llamado con razón «el Dickens de los pioneros»: ilustrando con humor y sentimiento el coraje y la virt…
Iracema, the Honey-Lips: a Legend of Brazil
Read by Leni
Jose de Alencar and José De Alencar
Iracema (translated as Iracema, the Honey Lips: a legend of Brazil) is considered one of the most important books of Brazilian romanticism, …
A Common Story
Read by Expatriate
Ivan Goncharov
Alexander Fedoritch Adouev is the naïve, pampered son of Anna Pavlovna, a provincial landowner. He decides to go off to Saint Petersbur…
Lord Beaupre
Read by Nicholas Clifford (1930-2019)
Henry James
What is a young man to do, when because of his pleasant disposition, and (of course) his considerable wealth, he finds himself besieged by b…
Captain Antifer
Read by Joseph DeNoia
Jules Verne
“No good deed goes Unpunished”, as the saying goes. A wealthy Egyptian leaves millions of buried treasure on an island and sends the locatio…
La Comédie Humaine: 09 - Scènes de la vie parisienne tome 1 (7-11-43) - Histoir…
Read by Bernard
Honoré de Balzac
Ce n'était pas une petite tâche que de peindre les deux ou trois mille figures saillantes d'une époque, car telle est, e…
Dombey and Son (version 3)
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
To Paul Dombey, the business is everything, and he must have a son who will learn the business and eventually inherit it. Will his newborn, …
Das Spinnennetz
Read by Availle
Joseph Roth
Theodor Lohse beschließt den 1. Weltkrieg als unbedeutender Leutnant und findet Arbeit als Hauslehrer beim reichen Juden Efrussi. Dort…
To The Lighthouse
Read by Cori Samuel
Virginia Woolf
The Ramsey family, with house guests, visit the Isle of Skye at least twice. The plot is not at all the point though, as this is a book abou…
The Rider on the White Horse
Read by Availle
Theodor Storm
Hauke Haien, a young man of 24 years, has just beome dikemaster in Northern Frisia. Against the resistance of many of the townfolk, he has a…
An Anonymous Story
Read by Expatriate
Anton Chekhov
In "An Anonymous Story," Chekhov continues to explore his favorite themes of superfluous men, ironic rakes, exploited women, and t…
Childhood (version 2)
Read by Expatriate
Leo Tolstoy
Childhood is the first published novel by Leo Tolstoy, released under the initials L. N. in the November 1852 issue of the popular Russian l…
Tales From Dickens
Read by LibriVox Volunteers
Hallie Erminie Rives
The Old Curiosity Shop; Hard Times; A Tale of Two Cities; Oliver Twist; The Pickwick Papers. Have you read any or all of these famous Dicken…
Life and Death of Harriett Frean
Read by Expatriate
May Sinclair
Harriett Frean is a well-to-do, unmarried woman living a life of meaningless dependency, boredom, and unproductivity as she patiently cares …
Nicholas Nickleby (Version 4)
Read by Hamlet
Charles Dickens
After the death of his father, Nicholas must provide for his mother and sister. His wealthy uncle provides him with employment at a boys' s…
Precious Bane
Read by NoelBadrian
Mary Webb
Published in 1924, Precious Bane is a novel by Mary Webb (1881 - 1927) which touches on ambition, prejudice and hatred but also on the power…
The Death of Society: A Novel of Tomorrow
Read by Expatriate
Florence Roma Muir Wilson
A weary survivor of the Great War, Major Rane Smith wanders in a great ennui amidst the mystical beauties of the fjords of Norway after the …
Heart of Darkness (version 4)
Read by Peter Dann
Joseph Conrad
In this powerful novella based on Joseph Conrad's own experiences in the Belgian Congo, Charles Marlow, an experienced seaman, tells a small…
The Struggles of Brown, Jones, and Robinson
Read by Arnold
Anthony Trollope
Billed as a satire concerning the dishonest advertising and business practices of the day, it tells the tale of an upstart clothing business…
A London Life
Read by Deborah Percy
Henry James
A devoted sister attempts to check her sibling's scandalous behavior in the world of British high society. A delightful comedy of Anglo-Ame…